Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

Adrian Graham binarydinosaurs at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 08:44:34 CDT 2018


>Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy
>drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? I'm wondering
>how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus
>PDP-11 via the RUX50 controller.

We had desktop RX50 and TK50 units for Micro 11/23 and 73s connected to an
RQDXE running off an RQDX3 controller. I still have a complete set that
work gave me when they retired them in the late 90s.

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On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 00:50, Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy
> drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? I'm wondering
> how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus
> PDP-11 via the RUX50 controller.
>


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